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(AP) UNITED NATIONS – Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister and longtime U.N. diplomat known as a strong-willed, independent broker, has agreed to replace former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria, the United Nations announced Friday. Brahimi, who served as a U.N. envoy in Afghanistan and Iraq, formally accepted the post and will resume efforts for a diplomatic solution to Syria’s crisis, said Eduardo del Buey, deputy spokesman for Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. “The violence and the suffering in Syria must come to an end,” del Buey said. “The Secretary-General appreciates Mr. Brahimi’s willingness to bring his considerable talents and experience to this crucial task for which he will need, and rightly expects, the strong, clear and unified support of the international community, including the Security Council.” Annan announced earlier this month that he would resign on Aug. 31 as joint U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, after failing to broker a cease-fire as the country descended into civil war. The U.N. says at least 18,000 people have been killed since March 2011. Brahimi, 78, who emerged last week as the leading candidate to replace Annan, brings a long record of working in the Arab and Islamic world. He served as Algeria’s foreign minister from 1991-93 and 강릉출장만남 joined the United Nations in 1994, where he served in a variety of high-profile posts until he retired in...

Doctors in Mexico are preparing to take matador Jose Tomas off sedation gradually and he is “totally out of danger,” manager Salvador Boix said. Tomas was gored in the groin Saturday during a bullfight in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes. The bull’s horn severed a vein and an artery and Tomas received a blood transfusion of up to 17 pints (eight liters), Boix said. Mexican television footage showed Tomas working the animal with his cape when the bull makes a quick turn toward the matador and catches him in the groin, lifting him into the air for a few seconds and shaking its head with Tomas dangling from its sharp left horn. The bullfighter’s father, Jose Tomas Roman, said from Mexico that normally he watches his son fight from high up in the stands but this time happened to be at ringside. When Tomas was gored, 포커 방법 he said, “the whole ring knew that it was a horrible injury.” “I will never do that again,” he told the radio station, referring to his ringside spot. “I feared for the worst.” Tomas is known for a daring bullfighting style in which he gets particularly close to the bull. His full name is Jose Tomas Roman Martin, but he goes by just Jose Tomas. In Spain, he has been something of an enigma: in 2002, at the peak of his...

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But even the staid CMA is good for the occasional twist or two, and this year’s best bet might be Vince Gill, who’s nominated for album of the year for his ambitious four-disc set, “These Days.” The awards are scheduled for Wednesday night in Nashville; ABC is to broadcast them live. Gill wrote or co-wrote all the albums’ 43 tracks, co-produced them, sang, played guitars and assembled a dream team of guests including Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, 맞고게임 Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris. Even though it’s been a while since Gill has been a country hitmaker, he’s well-respected in the industry and could surprise. A single from the album, “The Reason Why,” a duet with Krauss, is also nominated for musical event of the year. “That’s not the type of music that you can mass-produce. It’s very thoughtful and appealing on a number of levels and deserves to be awarded for that,” Wade Jessen, director of country charts for Billboard magazine, said of the album. Other categories to watch are female vocalist where reigning country queen Carrie Underwood and upstart Miranda Lambert are up against stalwarts Reba McEntire, Martina McBride and Alison Krauss; and vocal duo, where perennial favorites Brooks & Dunn have stiff competition from Big & Rich, Montgomery Gentry, Sugarland and the Wreckers. Krauss, a contemporary bluegrass star, has four nominations in all even though...